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As I watched the images last week of destruction from the Gaza Strip, where an Israeli shelling attack had killed an entire family, as a Palestinian I could understand the feelings of one survivor who said, “I cannot see a day when we will live in peace with them.” But I also know there is no other choice. or decades, the conventional wisdom has been that this conflict can only be resolved by partitioning the country into two states. Yet despite enormous efforts to achieve this, the two peoples remain thoroughly if unhappily intertwined. Israel’s project of establishing settler-colonies inside the territories where Palestinians wanted to create a state has rendered separation impossible. Read more about South Africa seen as model for Palestine

He frequently appears on television programs and writes op-ed pieces on the Middle East. He lobbies media organizations when he thinks their coverage has been unfair. And from his Hyde Park home, he helps maintain www.electronicintifada.net, a Web site that attempts to tell the story of the Middle East from a perspective he and others say is overlooked. Read more about Arab advocate still speaks up -- and often